JMC@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU (John McCarthy) (05/01/88)
I sent you the following on the 18th. Since it wasn't included in your recent digest number #86, I assume it got lost due to the incorrect address having been generated by some reply macro. This seems like a good occasion to solicit reactions to our 1969 notions. If you like, I'll send a longer message summarizing the ideas, but I probably won't have time to do it before I go on a two week trip starting May 4. [This was received, and was sent out in V6 N76 on April 21. I have no objection to running it again, but perhaps a few details about your position might draw more response. Most of the list members weren't following philosophical AI discussions in 1969. -- KIL] 18-Apr-88 1745 JMC re: AIList V6 #72 - Queries To: AIList@KL.SRI.COM [In reply to message sent Sun 17 Apr 1988 23:35-PDT.] McCarthy, John and P.J. Hayes (1969): ``Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence'', in D. Michie (ed), Machine Intelligence 4, American Elsevier, New York, NY discusses the problem of free will for machines. I never got any reaction to that discussion, pro or con, in the 19 years since it was published and would be grateful for some.